Robin Williams Quotes
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I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.
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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
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Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
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The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
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Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that’s going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
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Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
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A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.
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We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
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Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.
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People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
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I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
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If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
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The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.
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You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
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All it takes is a beautiful fake smile to hide an injured soul.
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.
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A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.